Question 1194523: Find the general term of (1,2,5,14,42,132,.......)
Answer by greenestamps(13206)   (Show Source):
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The problem as posted -- showing only a sequence of numbers without any information about what kind of sequence it is -- can't be answered.
Any subsequent numbers will form a valid sequence; and of course different subsequent numbers will have different forms of the rule for the general term of the sequence.
Given this sequence of 6 numbers, there is a unique polynomial of degree 5 that will produce the given sequence; and there are an infinite number of polynomials of degree 6 or greater that will produce it.
And the given sequence might have nothing to do with polynomials....
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